[AccessD] Lightswitch (was: Old Dog NewTricks)

Hi Darryl, 

I have yet to build an application.
It will be a few days before I can comment, but I will ...

Michael R Mattys
Business Process Developers
www.mattysconsulting.com


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:00 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Lightswitch (was: Old Dog NewTricks)


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Hi Michael,

How is it going with Lightswitch?  I downloaded and played around with the
beta a few months back.  Wifey put an end to my evenings of loafing around
on the computer by popping out Baby V2.0 in october.  Haven't really done
much since then :-/

Some of it I really liked, but I just started out with the user forms which
seemed a lot different to Access.  The Access form wizard is a great tool
for getting the base of a form up and running quickly.  I usually copy and
unbound all the controls onto a new form, but the fact the wizard can dump
them all on a new form all at once is much better than adding them one at a
time.

In the meantime I am still trying to learn ASP.net in C#...  I have the
motivation, but no darn time to sink my teeth into it.  Looking for a job
that is heading in that direction so I can get paid to learn it all.  Also
there is nothing like a looming deadline on a real project to motivate me
into learning how it all works. ;)

be interested to hear your thoughts.

Cheers
Darryl.

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mattys
Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 2:48 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Old Dog NewTricks

I am watching and listening to my brother curse MVVM as we put together a
Silverlight/XAML/WCF app. The craving for the power and speed is with us
also ...

However, I see that this Visual Studio LightSwitch is the exact thing that I
need for something that just works (much hidden implementation) and is
customizable - like Access with VBA - for all of our older clients who have
no desire to move all of their data from Access to SQL Server. I really hope
that they provide a data access method to Jet.


Michael R Mattys
Business Process Developers
www.mattysconsulting.com
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